Selenophorus breviusculus Horn, 1880

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 716

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scientific name	Selenophorus breviusculus Horn, 1880
status

Treatment

Selenophorus breviusculus G.H. Horn, 1880e: 181. Type locality: "Fort Cobb [Caddo County, Oklahoma], Indian Territory" (original citation). One syntype [2 originally cited] in MCZ [# 34543] and one in CMNH (collection Ulke).

Distribution.

This peculiar species is known from southern Kansas (Barber County, Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2012), west-central Oklahoma (Horn 1880e: 181), and northeastern Texas (Hunt County, CNC).

Records.

USA: KS, OK, TX

Note.

The systematic position of this species is not settled. It was not listed by Noonan (1985) in his classification and names of the Selenophori group. The species is markedly distinctive in its structural characters.